Senator Richard Lugar lost his bid to be re-nominated by the Republican Party in Indiana while federal inmate number 11593-051 scored more than 40% of the vote against President Obama in the Democratic primary in West Virginia. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will be the Democrat facing Scott Walker in the recall election this November June.

A group of hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous claimed to have hacked Twitter. The company says the claim is bogus, with the hacked information largely coming from suspended spam accounts.

Joe Biden on Iran: "When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We were the problem. We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe." A Mitt Romney spokesperson said the comments were "completely inappropriate."

British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the Euro single currency needed a single government as well. "The euro is a project in transition that could go in a number of different ways … all these countries have to make their own choices, " Cameron said.

California is considering a ban on gay conversion therapy, because it is harmful and ineffective.

That Cherokee ancestor of Elizabeth Warren's might've actually been rounding up Indians on the Trail of Tears instead.

Don't forget to sign up for Reason's daily AM/PM updates for more content!

New at ReasonTV: "Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux Brings Sanity to the "Half-Witted" Media"

Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time. Report abuses.

can’t do that; too much profit in it. Easier to focus on conversion therapy since there is no extra money in it for the state either way and govt can look like it is doing something meaningful without actually doing anything at all.

Maimed certainly, but not yet irrelevant. With the obvious glaring exceptions, you really can publish or say what you want, without prior restraint or censorship. The stupid restrictions on commercial and political speech are a problem, but they aren’t everything.

And that creating a Euro superstate can only be done over the vociferous objections of a solid majority of Europeans.

I would say its on a knife-edge, right now. It will probably come down to the Germans: are they willing to foot the bill/go into serious inflation? If not, then they can kill the Euro currency and superstate.

It’s hard to read the tea leaves in Europe. Right now, you’d think they’d just dump the Euro and allow the EU ties to weaken. But this is Europe we’re talking about, so it’s not impossible that they’ll just unify into one big, messy country. I doubt it, but times are weird.

And that creating a Euro superstate can only be done over the vociferous objections of a solid majority of Europeans.

Depends on which ones are the majority. I assure you Eastern Europe will have a lot to say over this, since those newer countries are more solvent individually.

I would say its on a knife-edge, right now. It will probably come down to the Germans: are they willing to foot the bill/go into serious inflation? If not, then they can kill the Euro currency and superstate.

True, since Germany is the solid economic leader in the EU for now. I also find it ironic since the UK has yet to adopt the Euro as de facto currency and PM Cameron making such suggestions. If Germany was to start printing Deutchmarks immediately, I wonder what affect that would have on the British Pound. The recently independent states can make some interesting demands at this point prior to inclusion in the EU, if that is their desire.

Its like all the stuff from the ’90s about this being the only logical outcome (and therefore the point all along) has been memory-holed. But I distinctly remember the anti-Euroists saying exactly this.

But the government cites reports by prisons expert Keith Hamburger, from the virology research centre the Burnett Institute, and former health minister Michael Moore, which recommended a safe tattooing facility to control the spread of HIV and hepatitis.

The good Minister is aware of the epidemiology and etiology of sexual contact for these diseases is the same as parenteral contact? If they aren’t poking needles in each other, they will be poking something else, and these are not mutually exclusive either.

This is the People’s Republic of the ACT so they probably would supervise if they had the cash. Or even facilitate (“Jaysen, what do we say? That’s right, please bend over, bitch. Now, don’t forget what we learnt about reacharounds…”)

I always assumed that, for Hutts, it was more of a status/power thing; like, Jabba realizes that other people desire “attractive” slave girls, so he buys them up to show he can afford it and to deprive other people of them.

My wife’s old boss had a wife who was very active in La Leche and gave breast feeding classes at local hospitals. She breast fed all 4 of the kids until they were 5 or 6. The office staff did the math and figured out she’d had a kid on the tit for something like 17 straight years. 42 longs, indeed.

Based on the picture, she has LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE! written all over her. I have absolutely nothing against breastfeeding in public, but it’s not too much to ask to throw a receiving blanket over yourself and the kid.

I went to a party thrown by a bunch of goth people. At least three women were openly breast feeding kids. I have no problem with that, but it did seem like they were just doing it to be “cool” and “edgy”.

I think people need to get over the whole “boobs are weird/sacred/gross” thing. I’ve never understood why two lumps of fat need to be cloistered or why only female nipples need to be blacked out/covered up in magazines. This is one area where cultural conditioning is pretty retarded.

Unintentionally hilarious Krugabe quote – when asked if he thought there was a danger that the US would not be able to borrow money, he replied “People have been talking about a debt crises in Japan for as long as I can remember; basically about 12 years.“

Krugabe actually used Britain and Germany during the 1920s and 30s as an example of why deficits do not matter. As long as people will loan you money, keep borrowing, seemed to be the thrust of his argument. Also, I urge everyone to go to the C-SPAN video archive and watch his segment once it is posted. A caller asked him to explain to the rubes and the monsters at FOX News how the multiplier effect works. Krugabe’s stammering ramble about how a 1st grade teacher paying her bills turns $1.00 of tax money into a $1.75 once it hits the ‘economy’ is top-notch stupid. He was in rare form today.

Yeah… the next guest was some liberal hand-wringer from Harper’s Magazine bemoaning the loss of Cabrini Green Houses. Mrs. L0b0t wisely commandeered the television set and is making us watch Bad Girls Club; I yell at that televisual feast as well but there is less danger of me throwing things at the screen.

Here’s the strange, nostalgic article. Funny part about the white Maoists who moved to Cabrini Green, got beaten when they confronted cops, and then sued the city successfully. Maoists never seemed to have a problem with administering state beatdowns; they just hate receiving them.

Thanks for the link. I followed it to Ben Austen’s other stories for Harper’s. His 2009 piece about Detroit’s saintly UAW and the evils of those sandle-wearing goldfish-tenders at Toyota who had the temerity to open a plant in the Bluegrass State is not to be missed. Also, I really don’t know who to root for in his Cabrini piece; I hate cops and Maoists.

The law of unintended consequences provides us with a good lesson here. With expanding due process in schools comes expanding punishment for the student. Far from freeing students from an stiffling authority, the SC opinions have helped to enact even stricter policies and reactions to violations.

In previous days bringing aspirin or tylenol to school for a headache was not a problem. Even if the principal or teacher objected, they merely reminded the student that their policy is to get medication form the school nurse. These days the consequences for doing the above is even criminal.

The due process pushers wished for a more formalized process of discipline and got it. The problem is that an increasingly formalized process of disciplining results in a decreased use of common sense, and an increased severity of punishment.

Right-wing types were screaming bloody murder when these “reforms” were adopted, but of course the reformers didn’t care. “OMG why do you *hate children!*”

Now they are belatedly acknowledging that this wasn’t such a hot idea, but getting rid of these reforms will be extremely difficult, even assuming they have the will to try. (“OMG why do you hate children? Racist!”)

Attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd. The state party also believes that Judd has failed to file paperwork required of presidential candidates, but officials continue to research the matter, Scarbro said.

Embarrassing. It doesn’t look like Judd’s campaign is any more on the ball than Gingrich’s or Santorum’s were.

“The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex. However, the true number of victims, who were “passed around” by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted. Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have now apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim – Girl A – to trial following her cry for help in August 2008. One 13 year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard. Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were “petrified of being called racist”, former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said.”

Incidentally, “the mass import of Asiatic immigrants” was a consequence of British law that held that British subjects, regardless of their birthplace had a right to live in Britain. The place was lousy with Aussies, Kiwis and Canucks for years too. They usually didn’t stay long though as their homelands aren’t shitholes like India and Pakistan.

I understand that. But how many Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks were plying teenage girls with alcohol and forcing them into prostitution for the shits and giggles of their fellows? They were either a) not doing so, or b) not getting caught.

They may have been British subjects, historically, but Muslims from British territories have never really been British, and they don’t see value in white teenagers except as sex slaves. Notice they were not abducting their own ethnic teens to serve as prostitutes, they were preying specifically on white girls. They might live in England, but Britons they will never be, and never respect.

Actually, there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that English police are quite slack about following up on rape complaints. Actually From newsp[aper reports English cops sound like the laziest bastards on earth when it come to responding to almost all criminal complaints but there lack of action on rape cases is especially inexcusable.

It’s quite conceivable that once confronted with some bleeding heart counselling cultural sensitivity their natural laziness combined with their subservience to bureaucratic superiors and gave them an excuse to ignore everything.

As to the invasion by Asiatic hordes, it has for the most part been positive. The immigrants tend to be far more entrepreneurial and self reliant than the native born English working class yobo, and heavily represented in the small merchant and shopkeeper class.

While the willingness of the local po-po to tolerate gang rape of teenagers as long as the rapists are Muslim is horrifying, I can’t help but notice that in an article about the corrosive effects of political correctness, the newspaper couldn’t stop itself from referring to Muslims as “Asians”.

Yeah, but isn’t the standard libertarian response to restricting immigration that immigration shouldn’t be restricted, and that we need immigrant labor to keep our economy going and our population robust (and also to ameliorate perceived collective guilt over colonizing less advanced civilizations 400-500 years ago)?

Libertarians don’t tend to give a shit about, or at least don’t want to blame the current generations for, crimes that may have been perpetrated by our ancestors. The “White guilt” ad hom doesn’t really stick to people who eschew identity politics. As for the semi-lucid part of your question, no, immigration should not be restricted, generally, but people should also be free to defend themselves and their families from shit like this without having to rely on police and social workers. Blaming this on immigration is disingenuous, as this group was, what, .0001% of the total number of immigrants to Britain in the past 10 years? Even .01% of the total number of Muslim immigrants? It was 9 fucked up individuals, and a failure of the State to protect its property.

periodically, this member of the EU Parliament makes the rounds, Daniel Hannan (I think). His summary is just that – you (the US) are where we (the UK) were a couple of decades ago and you are headed in our direction quickly.

Actually, most of this kind of “cultural sensitivity” was invented in the USA and has just been imported into countries like the UK (and Canada and Australia) where it got distilled and refined into the kind of lunacy that is its logical outcome.

It would actually be an interesting historical study to see just how many of the ideas ravaging the world today were originally advanced by American “thinkers” and wisely rejected by the populace at large only to be adopted enthusiastically by other governments.

For years, former laborers in Nazi-era ghettos have been fighting to get the pension that German law ostensibly guarantees them. A strict interpretation of that legislation, however, has meant that a vast majority of applications have been rejected. Now, a complaint has been filed with Germany’s highest court.

Check out the policeone commenter’s reaction to the guy whom the DEA gave kidney failure. It’s every bit as execrable as you think it might be.

Two standouts:

“They are going to pay him. Wait for him to do something wrong then arrest him and take their money back. Recycle 101.”

and

“Unacceptable on any level. When we arrest an individual, we assume liability for that individual. We are responsible for their safety, their well being, their hydration, their nourishment, their medical care, etc. There is no excuse for allowing something like this to happen. We’re not China.”

I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,’ Peterson said in the sermon. ‘We should’ve never turned this over to women. It was a big mistake… And these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil who agrees (sic) with them who’re gonna take us down this pathway of destruction. ‘And this probably was the reason that they didn’t allow women to vote when men were men. Because men, in the good old days, understood the nature of the woman. They were not afraid to deal with it and they understood that if they let them take over, this is what would happen.’

I think that there is little in the past that one should want to return to. I think that the only reason why people might have been freer in some sense in the past is because it was technically impossible to monitor and control people to the extent possible today.

As for the women voting question, I am sure that that had something to do with the success of the progressives and the New Deal. But so what? Judging groups of people collectively is always wrong. The thing about caring about freedom and self determination is that you have to support freedom even for people who disagree with you and will oppose freedom. Or you are just as bad as they are.

John, I know you’re not one to agree with anarchists but might I recommend Democracy: The God That Failed?

The premise is that, as democratic rights expanded, the role of government necessarily had to change to the horrid thing we have today. The author wants to unite conservatives and anarchists/libertarians as common allies against a state that destroys traditional values.

It also vaguely advocates monarchy as being preferable to democracy. It’s not something I agree with, but a thought-provoking read nonetheless.

I will have to check that out. I had the pleasure of knowing a few professors in college who were straight up monarchists. And they made some good points.

The problem is that when you have a good king, it is great. But when you have a bad one, it is that much more horrible. And then succession is a problem. You have to be willing to live with idiot sons.

I think the British had it pretty close to right with the Glorious Revolution. You have a King to intervene when the Parliament goes crazy. Sadly, the British monarch has become a figure head. A real monarch would have refused the royal seal to most of the nonsense that Parliament is passing.

In that case, I also recommend the (cancelled) show, Kings. It’s an alternate-history of the world where monarchy remained the standard formula; it’s also sort of a retelling of the rise of biblical King David.

Prohibition actually was the galvanizing issue that brought women into the Big Tent of The Temperance Leagues during The Temperance Movement. They wanted to ban booze and the right to vote and got both. So women have been on the forefront of limiting choice and expanding government for a long time.

I personally think the 16th and 17th are much bigger problems than the 18th. The 19th was pretty damn bad — but, at least they were still following the constitution. Soon thereafter, prohibition stopped requiring an amendment.

Do men and wymenz assign value in differently? If so, I’d say it is reasonable to assume that doubling the number of voters with people with different values, will change the narrative. To predict how would be speculative, but I have a few ideas that I occasionally piss off my wife with.

Thats a good one. I’m gonna use it in real life sometime. I occasionally try to bring up the 17th when engaged with non brain dead people. But even around what I consider to be pretty smart people, bringing up the 17th amendment can often induce blank stares of boredom. Maybe this rhetorical tactic can introduce a little bit of emotional oomph to the conversation.

TRANSLATION: “The idea that we need to get approval to get degrees, via the price system, causes us to lag behind in our march toward a better future. We must make it free to learn so that we can be free to improve ourselves and others to the fullest capacity.”

I rather liked adoptahomelessmotherf??ker.com (as seen on TV). It would be better of course as employahomelessmotherf??ker.com. I do sometimes ask professional beggars what they will do for my spare change. Considering the arse-ache I have to go through to earn the spare change, it seems a fair question

“I am entitled to the money you have earned; it is more important that I be given an education than that you are able to buy things in accordance with the others’ valuation of your abilities/contributions”.

Capitalism Kills Animals Humans and the Earth

“If it weren’t for the free and voluntary exchange of goods, we would still be living in the Garden of Eden.”

Wake the f?%! up America[…]

“A cabal of foreign money-lenders are the source of all worldly problems. By starving others and frightening them into submission, they gain dominance over us. Lincoln and Kennedy, two great presidents, were assassinated precisely because they saw this fact.”

PO Trucks Drug Tunnels Meth Tanks DEA FBI US Coast Guard Up to 5 Million US Dollars Reward Lee Kuan[…]ew People’s Action Party Singapore Police Up to 1 Million US Dollars

That Cherokee ancestor of Elizabeth Warren’s might’ve actually been rounding up Indians on the Trail of Tears instead.

Why does everyone keep picking on Elizabeth Warren?

She’s just a poor little Indian girl, who needs some extra help because of all the discrimination she’s suffered all her life–because of her Indian ancestry!

One more time, it isn’t about Elizabeth Warren’s ancestor. It’s about Elizabeth Warren. She disgracefully billed herself as a minority, who was discriminated against, in an effort to aggrandize herself. …at the expense of some deserving Native American professor somewhere, who probably would have had an opportunity to teach at the University of Pennsylvania–if only Elizabeth Warren hadn’t been so greedy.

Elizabeth Warren callously exploited the people she claims to be fighting for–she certainly didn’t let squashing some minority’s opportunity get in the way of self-aggrandizement. And the people of Massachusetts should be ashamed of themselves if they elect her to represent them.

But she means well. I am sorry for that poor Indian who didn’t get that Harvard appointment. But sometimes the individual has to be sacrificed for the greater good. If he had gotten that job, Harvard would have been deprived of the fairy godmother to Occupy Wall Street.

One of most sickening part of Warren and the other “elites” of her ilk is they produce nothing of value. What has she done, other than make a bunch of BS papers supporting lefty causes, with her life? And she gets all the money for producing essentially nothing.

The sickening thing to me is that these people do this all in pursuit of power and to satisfy there own inflated egos. It’s disgusting and repulsive. She and her ilk beleive they are btter than everyone else, deserve their trappings and benefits, while all the rest of us are supposed to knuckle under, behave oursevles, and let our betters decide how we should will live our lives.

When the common man revolts, and these people find themselves tarred and feathered, swinging from a gibbet, or under a guillotine, or worse, they will still beleive in the righteousness of their cause – which is nothing but a base pursuit of power.

My mom picked up on something very interesting… Warren is vain about her appearance.

Warren made some crack about not having to take her clothes off to get ahead, and Brown apparently made a joke along the lines of “Thank God” and she got mad. My mom heard Warren’s response and says that Warren was really pissed that someone would think she wasn’t attractive enough for a magazine to shoot naked.

Well you are such an intellectual giant there Mo, I would hate to force you to lower yourself down to us mortals. I am just glad someone like you is willing to even speak with us let alone share his smugness.

Thanks John, I appreciate the high praise but coming from you it means nothing. You’re just another angry artifact on the Internet. As far as I know, I am so much fucking smarter than the rest of you, though maybe not as specialized in some areas like doctoring or lawyering. I don’t know what gave you the idea that I was being smug, I was simply pointing out that a lot of the time you’re a douche. There’s no need to get your panties in a twist when someone calls you out on it, none of the other people here do.

You were just pointing out how wonderful and superior you are while dismissing other people completely, ignoring any possibility of iron from the other side while being completely pedantic. But you were not being smug at all.

All this is making me wonder if I can claim sort of superfecta of discrimination when I apply for stuff. I have to admit I hadn’t considered it, but hey, if it s good enough for our “elites”… Cherokee ancestry: check. Irish ancestry: check. Catholic ancestry: check. Impoverished tenant farmer ancestry: check.

True, this. I’m not gay. I’m straighter than a statute mile, but I manned the GLBT table at work last month, so no a lot of people think I’m gay. Even the gay folk that were there. But what am I supposed to do? Tell everyone who comes up to the table, “Hell no I’m not gay. That shit’s disgusting.”?

It was sure as hell reserved for minorities. If they hadn’t hired her, they would have found another minority to meet the quota, although not necessarily an Indian.

I love Harvard’s claim that she was qualified and would have been hired had she not claimed to be Indian. Okay, then why do you need affirmative action if minorities would get hired anyway? Is Harvard admitting that they are racist and would be unwilling to hire qualified minority candidates if affirmative action policies didn’t force them to? Seems that way to me.

I don’t accept the premise that her position at Harvard was reserved for Indians.

The position at Harvard may not have been reserved for Native Americans, but would Harvard have hired her if she hadn’t been at the University of Pennsylvania?

She started listing herself as Native American when she was at the University of Houston–is my understanding. Would the University of Pennsylvania have hired her if she wasn’t supposedly Native American?

If she didn’t think it would help her, then why did she list her ethnicity as Native American?

Do you know what her answer is?

She says she listed her ethnicity as a Native American in the hope of meeting new people!

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am,” said Warren.

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am,” said Warren.

By “people who are like I am”, what the hell did she mean?

People that are also taking advantage of a technicality to deprive some minority professor, who has genuinely suffered discrimination? People who are doing that for their own self-aggrandizement–and then turning around and running for office on a platform of fighting for minorities and the downtrodden?

How many more people like that are out there?! I guess she imagines the rest of us are just as depraved as she is.

Ken, if you keep banging on that Lizzy the Limousine Liberal harp you’re going to break the strings. We get it, you don’t like her. You also seem to be under the impression that only YOU can see the true woman. Well guess what, the voters of MA don’t give even one half of a shit what you think. People like her are the type of people they’ve been putting in office for decades.

Fer Christ’s sake, if you can’t bash a limousine liberal on a libertarian blog–who participated in TARP, helped bring about the CFA and claimed to have “created the intellectual foundation for what the Occupy Wall Street Movement is doing?

Newly revealed German government documents reveal that many in Helmut Kohl’s Chancellery had deep doubts about a European common currency when it was introduced in 1998. First and foremost, experts pointed to Italy as being the euro’s weak link. The early shortcomings have yet to be corrected.

What I think is interesting about the “gay community” (at least the people whose blogs I follow, at any rate) is that by and large they seem to be bitterly disappointed in Obama, and yet by and large they still plan on voting for him. All those rainbow pins are pretty sad.

I was working for a UCC church, and it was sad to see the group emails that would go out about Obama, discussing his “record” of talking out of two sides of his mouth, lack of backbone for the gay community, but still determined to cast a vote for him.

“To many Russian and Ukrainian immigrants, the cornucopia in the shops along Brighton Beach Avenue — pyramids of oranges, heaps of Kirby cucumbers, bushels of tomatoes with their vines still attached and a variety of fish, sausages, and pastries — seems like an exuberant rebuke of the meager produce that was available to them when their lived in the Soviet Union.

This contrast helps explain a striking political anomaly: immigrants from the former Soviet Union are far more apt to vote for Republicans than are most New Yorkers, who often drink in Democratic Party allegiance with their mothers’ milk and are four times as likely to register as Democrats than as Republicans.”

“One reason these voters tend to support Republicans is that they see them as more ardent warriors against the kind of big-government, business-stifling programs that soured their lives in the Soviet Union. Their conservative stances on issues like taxes and Israel seem to outweigh their more liberal views on social issues like abortion.

Tatiana Varzar came to the United States in 1979, at age 21, from the Ukrainian seaport of Odessa. She worked as a manicurist and then opened a small restaurant on the boardwalk that grew into Tatiana Restaurant, a spacious magnet for foodies who like a whiff of salt air and a sea view with their pirogen. Today it is a destination for high-powered Russians, like some of the executives who own the Brooklyn Nets.

“I am what I am because of capitalism,” Ms. Varzar said, “and Republicans are more capitalistic.”

Anatoly Alter immigrated from Kiev, Ukraine, in 1978, worked as a machine operator in Manhattan’s fur district and now owns one of the fur emporiums on Brighton Beach Avenue, a shop lush with mink, sable, and ermine coats. In his view, Democrats like Obama have introduced a “socialist mentality,” which is why he prefers Republicans. “Too many people want to rely on free money and socialist institution, and they want businessmen to pay for it,” Mr. Alter said.”

despite the antipathy many Russian immigrants expressed toward state programs, a large number of his compatriots worked in hospitals, nursing homes and social-service agencies that received government financing

good old New York Times. making the “you can’t really be a libertarian because you drive on the roads” argument. Is there a name for this piece of shit argument? There should be.

What this means is anyone’s guess, but it isn’t far-fetched to infer that a government-mandated health-care system eventually would necessitate a government-mandated diet to control costs. In another study, Finkelstein and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that obesity costs about $147 billion per year, accounting for about 9 percent of all medical expenses.

Americans were repeatedly told that al Qaeda had ceased to exist as an organizational entity, that it had become nothing more than a hollow shell, a leaderless group of disparate individuals unconnected to any central authority. Bin Laden was said to be completely estranged from the movement he created: living in a remote cave, isolated from his fighters, sympathizers and supporters, unable to exercise any meaningful role in the movement’s operations and future trajectory.

The picture that emerges from the seized Arabic-language documents is of a leader involved in both al Qaeda’s day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. Ever the policy wonk, opining on topics as diverse as the “Arab Spring” and the declining U.S. economy, bin Laden also retained his penchant for attempting to micromanage-however unresponsive his franchises and affiliates may have been beyond the villa.

There seems to be little chance of Greece’s political parties being able to form a viable coalition government after voters punished the two main parties in Sunday’s election. It’s a worst case scenario for the country’s European partners, whose whole approach to fighting the Greek debt crisis is now in question.

In 2010, as Obama was floating Warren’s name as someone to run his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “The Atlantic” magazine reviewed her academic work and found a disturbing “pattern” of using bogus metrics to inflate the case for left-wing causes. “Deeply, deeply flawed,” it said of her research. “This isn’t Harvard (Law) caliber material ? not even Harvard undergraduate.”

You be nice to that girl with the plastic surgery! She’s been going through a trying time, what with all her social climbing harlotry. And the secret to Jocleyn Wildenstein’s fountain of youth is still unclear. Nothing a little base and some powder can’t cure!

The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.

Written by Eric Kripke, directed by Jon Favreau and produced by JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros TV, “Revolution” is described as a high-octane action drama following a group of characters struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. Billy Burke plays the lead, with Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiradakos, Graham Rogers, and Anna Lise co-starring.

Yea, it’s kinda stupid. Kinda reminds me of SM Stirling’s books. They’re a fun read but the idea that IC engines and gunpowder don’t work because of some mysterious force are retarded suspensions of the laws of physics.

Okay, I have a FUCKING Lysol commercial playing in the background every 10 FUCKING seconds and I can’t fucking find it to turn it off! I’t driving me nuts! What happened to pop-up blockers? Why can’t they filter this shit out.